CRI Finds Lenders, Completes ConeXus World Deal October 21, 2015 by Dave Haynes Creative Realities has found lenders and therefore pulled the finances together to complete the acquisition of the digital signage deployment firm ConeXus World Global, turning ConeXus into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. To do the deal first announced in August, CRI got a $3.0 million accounts receivables financing facility with “a nationally-established lender” (as opposed to a …
Starbucks Adding Outdoor Video Displays In 2,400 US Drive-Thrus October 20, 2015 by Dave Haynes My suspicion is that the guys who specialize in outdoor displays are already all over this, but if not, they’ll be very interested in news that Starbucks is adding daylight-readable displays to some 2,400 drive-thru lanes in the United States. The screens will do promotion, as well as order confirmation and a show a live …
Save $200 Today On An Xlab Ticket October 20, 2015 by Dave Haynes If your work in digital signage sees you in meetings where the client or the bosses start talking about their aspirations for transforming a space, or creating an experience, you kinda sorta need to get to New York in a couple of weeks for an event called Xlab. The day-long event is organized by the Society …
Projects: Red Rock Bets On Fine Pixel Pitch LED Walls In Sports Book Upgrade October 20, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Red Rock Resort on the western outskirts of Las Vegas has replaced an aging projection wall in its sports book area with a giant 1,730 square feet of 2.5 mm fine pixel pitch LED modules, creating what’s touted to be the largest installation of its kind in North America. The displays also have three …
Projects: Armodilo Keeps Eatsa’s Screens Good Looking And Up October 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes Remember that cool automated QSR in San Francisco that was reminiscent of a ’50s automat diner? Turns out the ordering screens come from just up the road from me in St. Jacob’s, Ontario, from the nice folks (and loyal 16:9 sponsors) at Armodilo Display Solutions. Here’s a post by Armodilo about the install at Eatsa, which …
IntuiLab Turns On Interactive Toolset For ChromeOS Digital Signage October 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes The French firm IntuiLab has developed and announced a version of its interactive screen tools to work with low-cost Chromeboxes and all-in-one Chromebase displays. The hook to the IntuiFace platform is its ability to enable slick, highly interactive HTML5-based experiences without the designer, developer or network operator need to know much of anything about coding. The ChromeOS …
This Teeny PC Would Run Digital Signage On Windows, Linux OR Android October 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes The substantial crowd out there that is endlessly looking for gear that drives capital costs out of digital signage projects will undoubtedly be intrigued by a planned Kickstarter campaign to develop a tiny x86 microcomputer that would run Windows, Linux OR Android 5.0. The units would cost roughly $100 USD in volume. That’s substantially more than a …
NYC OKs Plan To Kick Taxi Cab Screens To The Curb October 16, 2015 by Dave Haynes One of the higher profile digital out of home networks around just got its plug pulled. Screens in the back seats of some 14,000 New York City and borough cabs are being unplugged after the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission approved a pilot program on Thursday that will start by replacing a percentage of the screens …
Open Source Concerto Digital Signage Platform Gets Commercial SaaS Version October 15, 2015 by Dave Haynes Some of the people who developed the open source digital signage platform Concerto, when they were students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, have now developed a commercial wrapper of Concerto aimed at users who want a low-cost, intuitive system, but don’t want to manage servers. If end-users want to use Concerto at no cost, they’ll need your …
The Virtual Dressing Room Goes To The Museum October 14, 2015 by Dave Haynes The virtual dressing room thing right in a retail environment escapes me a little bit (being old, male and clueless never helps), but a software company that specializes in this stuff recently showcased an interesting, very different use for the tech at a famed museum. Zugara was one of a short list of companies asked …
